The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-25 00:00:00

zi - ONEY MARKET AND COMM ILCIAL INTELLIGENCE, Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this morning, according to Reuter's telegrams, the Three per Cent. Rentes Were quoted 65f. 65c. An improvement of about 3-16 ths has taken place to-day in the market for the English Funds, on Purchases probably in behalf of operators for a full closing cf their accounts to secure the available Profit. A better feeling has also been evinced re garding political affairs, and Consols have improved, the latest prices being 891 90 for money, and 901 for the Bth pros. The New Threes are 88f 89; the Reduced, 881 ; India 5 per Cents., 1041 ; do. per Cent., 991; do. 5 per Cent. Enfaced, 104; and do. Bonds, 163. to 10s. dis. A general improvement has taken place in the Foreign Market, and there is more activity. Tur kich 6 par Ctuts., 1302, are 701; do., Cons°lid4s, 48i ; Spanish Passive, 291 4 ; Greek, 23! ; Me - glean, 431 y ; Portuguese, 481 49; Russian Scrip, 34 7 3 ,-, prem. ; Italian, 69 t; and the Confederate Loan, 62 64, Business in the Railway Share Market has con tinued rather inactive, but in some instances prices have shown more firmness. Lancashire and York shire, and North Western have each improved 10s, Midland, 59, and Great Western 15s, while Great Eastern have receded 53, and Great Northern A stock 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines remain very in ac'•ivo at about previous rates. Bank and Mi:c3llaneous Shares continue dull, and show in several instances increased depression. London and South African have declined to 24 ; New South Wales to 46.1 ; and Standard of British South Africa to 281 ; Chamounix United Hotel Company are quoted 3 1- 1.1 prem. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. 3 Per Cent. Consols s Do Account, July 8 'Per Cent. Reduced ",,ew 3 per Cent New 24 per Cent. Jan. 1891 Do s`per Cent., Jan. 1873 Anzuities, 30 yrs, expire Bth Jan., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — March, June. par E xchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent Do X5OO Do £lOO and £2OO .. — /lank England Stir, 5} per Ct. Do Account — INDI &II GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. India Stock, 101 per Cent., April 1874 — Do Account — Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870 I). Account Do 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 9J/ Do Certificates Do Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent — 1)0 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 lO4 Do 51 per Cent. ' May, 1879, .. . Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 D , Bonds .6 1,9` )0 . 10 Do under £l,OOO l6 die FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Do 1859 — Brazilian 5 per Cent Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 ..... ... Do 1863 Buenos Avres 6 per Cent - Do Account Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — °Lilian 6 per Cent Do 3 pei Cent. Colombian 6 per Cent Cuba, 6 per Cent. Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do 5 per Cent. 1864 tcluador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent — tv'gvptian 7 per Cent — Do, Second Issue — .. Greek 5 per Cent. , 1824-5, es-Coupons.. •- Do Account Do Coupons — Do Account... .............. , G uatemala 5 per Cent. . Do, 1839 I .,,, it alian 5 per Cent.(Maremmana Railway) 44 exican 3 per Cent .... k , D 0 Account r - 1, 0 Scrip £23 paid ...... Do F renc h S cr i p , E x . 25f 200........ _- dis Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French........ dis _ Ditto Scrip, £23 paid :43oorish Imperial 5 per Cent New Granada vo 2 per Cent. Do Deferred Do Land Warrants (Hectares) — ' eruvis t u 41_ per Cent . — -.. . .P 0 Z.l per Cent. (13ribarren).. ' l -20 4} per Cent., 1862 — ue Account P ortugues e 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account .. 481 Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '60,62,'3.. Do Account 4Bl b, 3)0 1863 Scrip, £4O paid s'ilmsiar k 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 4 per Cent., 1850 B5 Ditto 3 oer Cent 1859 .. Ditto 5 per Cent, 1862 Ditto Anglo-Dutch p Ditto Scrip, £3O paid — pm k,a riinian 6 per Cent.......... p bitto Account — ° Panish.3 per Cent Ditto Account : — Ditto New Deferred Ditto Account Ditto Passive 30 291 Ditto Account i ° Danish Cert. of Coup not funded .. — bitto Account — S wedish, 4 per Cent Ditto Scrip, £6O paid — Pm 4 larkish 6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 . — llitto Account — Ditto 4 100 Bonds Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862 Ditto lAccount .. 70/ I 70 Ditto £lOO Bonds.. — Ditto 1863 .Ditt o Guaranteed, 4 per Cent — Venezuela 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent, 1864 Ditto 11 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Lend u, k estrian, 5 per Cent.. Ex. 10 Florins. -- 138 1gian 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f......... , uitto Account — -uutch 2} per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Italian, S per Cent., 1861, .Ex. 25 francs — Ditto ,!account b r eruvian Dollar Bonds, 4} per Ct. E x. 4 s . 'iedmontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f — TWO O'CLOCK. C onsole Money Ditto Account • • . 90 i CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Full rates and general activity of business are the Principal features of the money market, and very little alteration is expected during tha next fort night. Afterwards, however, the distribution of these dividends at the Bank will largely augment the supplies on offer, and in the meantime less gold le expected to leave the country for France, Spain, &e. A further sum of £7,000 in gola was taken out of the Bank yesterday. h the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon there was no material change. Since Monday last the imports of specie have aniounted to £350,193, and the exports to £211,850. Tho share-list of the Great North Vor Tin and Copper Mining (Limited) is advertised to close on Tuesday, the 28th inst. The shares are at I to 1 PM. We learn that a considerable portion of the Kock has been already subscribed for. COOk Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day, Market steady—waiting American mails. Sales about 6,000 bales ; imports, 15,310 ; previously, 128. SKIPPING INTELLIGENCE — This Day, ~--- LONDON, June ')s.—Wind this day at noon—South 'P'at zaoclerdza breeze and fine weather, but rather cloud}•. - • FALMOUTH, Juno 25.—Wind AV.—Arrived—Jeannette, fr o t'l Buenos Ayres. S avannah. June 23.—Wind S.W,—Sailed—Melody, for kl avannah. PLYMOUTH, June 24 —Wind S.W.—Arrived—Gipsy Queen, from Quebec. Sailed—Jessie Boyle, and Eliza, for Quebec. DARTMOUTH, June 24.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Win 41ester, from London for Cs,lcutta. 13 P.In G EWA TE It, June 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Mar nrctre, from Rao Bache. G LoucEsTER, June 24.—Wind S.W. — Arrived — Port 4 t4 'gow, from Quebec. The Brussels journals state that the Archduke Jo seph and his wife, the Princess Clotilda, as well as the krchduke Stephen, near relatives of the Duchess de Bra )44t3 are expeced in the Belgian capital, to be pnsent at ae oaptimi of the youog Princess Stephanic: Clctilla, 15EARE MARKETS—Ths Share/ Railways. II j S Si I 84 ,:i 10 117 k 118' ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOLS. Closing Business 'i Price. done. (3.14. Bir.. W01.,_ and Str. Val al Blythe and Tyne. Bo st. , Sleaf.,andllid.Cc al Bristol and Exeter 101 Caledonian l O, Cork and Bandon a: Cornwall D al. A (A Vets n o div a o. B till 6pc.p an.has a (been paid to 8.1 Dublin Belfast June a] Dun„Perth,& - Ab. Junc 1 al P,:ritnburgh & Glasgow , 1 0 Ging. and S. Western 10 Great Eastern, Ord. an! 10 Ditto A stock ' 10i Ditto East Anglian st ! 1 0 ' GreatNcrthof Scotland l 11 great Northern ' 1 Do A stock 1 Do 13 do Gt. S. and IV. of Irelan; 1 1 Great Western 1 Do Str Val Grua. sto3l, Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blaokwai et Len., Bright.,& S. Coas St Lon., Chat., and Dover 1 at Lon. & North Western 101 at Lon. & So•.th Western IC at Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 1C 50 Maryport and Carlisle. a InDog 5hare©........,, a, at Metropolitan al st Midland Do New Do Birminz. ez Derby 1C .lid. Gt. W. of Ireland a Do. d shares Sent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee 10 Nth. Eastern—Berwio, 10 Do, G.N.E. purchaoe 16.1 Do Leeds lO Do York Do Carlisle lO North London Do New North Sta fforcishire N. and S. W. Junction al Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock 10 Do Scot. Mid. stock 1 10 Shrews, and Welchpool I a' Shropshire Union South Delon ..... 10 South Eastern I 10 South Wales , 10 S. YnOr And T 2 vpr 1. Staines,Wok.,andWok. I a] Stockton I.; Darlington a] Do l' Do New, 1800. ll Taff Vale lOl Do B Do C • Ulster Do Do 5 Vale of Neath Victoria sta. and Pim ll Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall lO W. Hartlepool Har.&R 1 101 West Midland -o.xlord 100 Do Newport 100 Do lierefordi 100 BRITISH POSSE Railways &fiend() & St Lawrence Bom.,Baroda&.Cent Ind t Gu. 5 per cent... Do. New Do. E. Buffalo and ',axe Huron al, Do. Preference ...... al; Buffalo,BrantotGodria 10 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 187.' Do. do. July 1, 1873 10( Do. do. June 1, 189 10( Cleutta.&,S.Eastn.(l,ini. 101 Cape Town Dock Seri; 101 Eastn. Bengal gu. sp. & 101 East Indian. gu. 5 p. c. 10 , Do. do. G Ext..... 1 Do. do. II do. .. Grand Trunk of Canada lui Do. Ist Pref. Bonds.. al Do. do. deferred...... al Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. al Do. do. deferred...... at Do. 3d Pref.. stock ... al Do. do. deferred._ a t Do. 4th Pref. stook— al Do. do. deferred...... GLlndial'enin.gua.6p.o 10 Do. New gua. sp. a... 1' Do. January, 1862 -- Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per cent. 10 Gt. W. of Canada Shares al Do. New ... Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt. al Do. 5i p. o. do. '77-8.... al Indian Branch Limited Madras guar., S P. 0 . .. 1 01 Do. 41. p. o. Extension 101 Dc. 4* d 0........ Do. Fifth Extension. Helb.Corp. 6p. o. Both. 10 , slelb. & liobson's Bay. al Do. 7p. c. Hortg. Bds. al. Newßranswioll Can& Class A and B. al; N.lll.C'da spo lat pi bds 11 &Ando (1( Do. Delhi I r i G.; 1 1( Do. do ,„ z Do. Punjaub Do. Do. , at, • Do. Indus. St. Flo.) COLONIAL GOVERN .1 - - !1 6& 7 J 1 - - [I ' 35 LI 1(i 37 17 93 105 ,7 6& 7i _ . : 131 132 10 143 144 O 128 cslz O 90 91 • 65 65 1121 113 66 C 8 10! 104 40 42 0 111 i Ill!, 0 07 98 0 56 17 - 112 U 3 0 , 130 130 101 1(3 53 65 21 `,5 0 lO3 104 .3.41 d I 60 61 I 92 03 125 128 16 2i p' 76 78 1O 111 125 130 20 38 54 66 33 85 00i 01 11,14 100 ,11 8 9 11 364 374 17 94 10 .0 74 84 e , It) 165 170 8 6 7 3 3 4 p; 11 - - 1 0 107 110 )0 1 34 37 SSIONS. C losing Price. ll 59 61 100 103 /0, 7i 11 o p i ar p tl 8) 91 77 82 77 8 77 82 101 (03 98 100 IC4 105 i . 5 P! 02u 21 11 72 74 ll 6!. 64 II 66 6S [I 55 S 7 tl 50 5! t 1 43 45 II 28 30 .11 26 29 00 Ic4l .2 pr 103 104 io lo} Ls toi fog: 11 90 1)2 11 2 82 61 • )0 io2i Iv 3 )0 97 99 10 9t Of fl 156 58 Li 3 5 00 82 81 (00 1031 1C45 00 1021 1031 2 pr ip all tv2j 101 ---- 00 i 9 - 6 98 ov. 6 p.c.J &J ul; 1577-S4 Aug. . 1('0 1 1 2 IC4 Do. p. c. Feb. et lOO IG4 :CO Do. Bp. (3.11ar. & Sept. 100 103 1(5 Do. 6p. 0. Jan.&July. 10t 93 05 Do. 5 Tnscribed stock 100 92 94 cape G.llope, Bp 0,1873 100 104 106 Do.Ap &Oct. 1880 100 107 109 Do. 1890 100 1(9 111 Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 110 112 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 8 p 100 111 113 , Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 107 109 'Natal Gov. 6 per cont 100 107 IC9 N.1.1.G0v. Op.°. J a.&Jul) 100 102 104 Do. Sp. c.Ap. & Oct. 100 N. S.W. G ov. 5 p 18i1 100 Do. sp. c.,18/1 tol:;7( 10 Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 10 New Zealand 6 p cent. 10 Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c steriln,, ,, , 1875 lO Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOl S. due G6p.e.1878.& up lO Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 10 Do. to a DJ% An,SzOot.. 101 994 100/ 994 104 1 091 ICO4 I 10/ 111 105 107 108 110 109 111 ,09 110 NES. ICOI ,ENT SECURITIES. 1041 1091 i 0.16.! ~'. `!ART( 100 Sk 20 stock steak stock. stook stook stook stock stook 20 stock stock stock BRITISH M 31 36 1 6CO 670 0 €4 66 2 IJaii, briar' Consol. Gold 1 - it Ford Amalgamated - - Devon G. Con.. (Tavist ) - I East Bassett (Illogan).: 3i - • ! s:ast Clogau Gold Ltd. - - I East Caradon ?.P - East Cam Brea.... - j WI Russel (Tavistk )' 8.1 - I Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen , 5! - I Great South Tolgus - IG. Wheal Vor(lielston 4( - iGrenville - lier;.•d's-Foot B.l - ingston D0wn5....,. 4.1. - Lady Bertha - Olargaret (tiny .Lelant ty - )larke Valley.. -tidy Iron Oro (Lim: , 2, • J • - NCIV Setun 3.1 . • North Downs s.'W/t Basset (1110,..Tan 3.1. - North Wheal Crotty 2.6. - i'ar Consols (St. Blazey, - ()) rrovidenee (tiny Lelnt.; 10.( Caradon(SLCleer, - - 13. Cam Brea (Illogan). . Fran. (111o;:an i 18.1 -- IStray Park 30.1 - l ramar Silv..t Lead Min - - !fin Croit 9 I West. Basset (Illogan) - 1 W radon (Liskeard), 5 - [West Seton - IWheo.l Basset (Illogan.l S. Buller(ltedruth P - I Wheal Kitty (li.Lelaut) 2. - WhealLudcott I - !Wheal IllaryAnn , ,Men )1 8 - 1 Wheal seton . 58i - tVhealTreiawney (Lis.)l 7 - 1W heal Union 1 3.17 f bd L 4.61 29_ 30 71 ~~ 41 18/ 7 0 17s 2/ 21 i 0 33 34 81 81 12 88 40 '.8.0 31 31 3.8 1 6 )1, 14 10 3 0 41 41 1t d 1.61 70 80 2 1.0 11 2 '9 4i 41 .0.71 40 42 Lj 450 170 18.9 50 55 17.0 29 31 I 371 78} 9i iO4 16 18 109 200 * 90 P 5 0 27 29 0.0 - 2i 21 14 16 22. q 2274 19 21. 2 29 i i i PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Northern, 5 per cent., red. at 5 per cent. pm., 108 Great Western Orig. 44 per cent pl., YB4 , South Devon, Anna., 10s., 10i LINES LEASED A' FIXED RENTAL& Rull and Selby, 11l FOREIG:si RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, 91 Belgian Eastern Junction, 11 Great Luxembourg, 101 San Paulo (lin), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (all), 29 181 FOREIGN M=El3. Fortuna (Urn.), 31 St. John del Hey (lira.), 40 Yudananiutana of S. Australia, lint, 2} BANKS. Agra and United Service (lim.), if of Anglo Austrian, 653 Australasia, - Ditto, new, sti Brazilian and Porialguest, Um,, 13 i t City, 137 61 Com D m it e t r o c , la is l sßuaendkr,n,fiolnpdmia, i and the East, 31 Continental, 17 East Londo,-4, lint., si English, `:,cotch, and Australian Chartered, 211 1 Europr.an Bank, lim., 135 kiinr:fustan, china, and Japan (lira.), Imperial Bank (11m.), 3 7i pitto, new, issued at 2 pm.,1 16 1 Imperial Ottoman, 18 17} 18 'and Mortgage Bank of , India, London Chartered Bank of Australia, lisk 25 London and Comity, 6 5 London, Hamburg, Cont. Exchang,e , lim. ,17 t London and Northern, lim., 225 London and South African, 241 London and 11 estminster, 97 Mercantile and Exchange. lim.. 1 9 i Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, 11M., 291 t New South 'Wales, 465 New Zealand Bank Corporation, Um., 1 5 Oriental Bank Corporation, 59 Scinde, Punjab, and Delhi, Bin., 13 South E istern, lim., Standard of British South Africa airnO, 231 MISELLANEOUS. Commercial Union, Insur C ance, 8 East India Irrigation and Canal, 55 Egyptian Cora. and Trading, lint., 41 Gen. Credit and Finance of London, Btu., Home and C ylonial A ssurance, lint ,155 Hudson's Bay, 18} 5 Imperil and Mercantile Credit A sso., lim. q 7 International Financial society, lim., o a l 10 0.1 International Land Credit, bin., 45 4 Joint Stock Discount, lim., 7,1 Land Securities, lint., 44 London Financial Association ' lim., 25} M dras Irr gation and Canal, 15 National Discount Company, Rm., 141 Oriental Inland Steam, 3 A Royal Mail Steam, 915 2 Kni[ o rht, and Co., lim., 45 HERR SOACIIIIII will perform a new violin con certo, composed by hinisdf, at 1 he Philharmonic Concert on Monday, on which occasion Dr. Bennett's new orchestral piece (a symphonic overture) will be ezecuted for the first time, mu SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EV_ENING s JUNE 25, 1864. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day). SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr Commissioner Kerr.) WHERE THE COOD SERMONS COME FROM.-SINGULAR ACTIONS.-ROGERS Y. WALCOT AND OTHER DE- PENDANTS. The plaintiff in these cases sued a number of clerical gen tlemen for sermons supplied at different periods—the de.. fondants being rectors, vicars, and curates in the country. In one case, Rogers v. Walcot, the defendant was de scribed as of Ribbesford, and his debt amounted to £l2 14s Gd. His Honour asked if all that money was for sermons ? Plaintiff's representative—•Oh, yes ; your honour has the particulars. ' His Honour—Oh I I see they aro here. The account set out that " harvest sermons" were 2s 6d each. The special manuscript sermon was £1 Is, and ordinary special sermons were charged at ss. His Honour then made a calculation, and found that since MO the defendant had received in all no less than 32G sermons. 1 3 I Witness—Yes, I believe that is the number. His Honour—Defendant has 326 sermons, and he pays £42 for the lot. Well, the account extends over a consi derable period, and really he does not pay mucli for them, taking the matter altogether, What is defendant ? I see he is a rector. I hope that Witness—l have a letter from the defendant here, if your Honour would like to see it. The letter was then handed up to his Honour, who read it, and remarked—He admits that they are good sermons. (Laughter.) Come, there is something in that. I%' fitness (smiling)—l believe there is no doubt about that. His Honour—He does not dispute having received all these sermons, and considering the length of time, the amount does not seem at all unreasonable. His Honour then pinned the letter to the summons, but tho witness applied to have it returned to him. His Honour—Do you want it? I have annexed it to ,he summons. Witness—l should like to have it again. Mr Osgood (Registrar)—l do not want it. .It was only produced as evidence for the Court. The letter was then handed to the witness, and the usual verdict was recorded as in the other cases. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr Commissioner Goulburn.) IN RE A. DIAINIVARING. This bankrupt was described as formerly of Worthing House, near Basingstoke, and of the Army and Navy Club, Pall-Mall, and this was an adjourned meeting for last examination and discharge. Tho bankrupt wes lately a captain in her Majesty's ser vice, and from the accounts, by Messrs Hart Brothers and Hoyles, it appears that he owes to unsecured creditors, £13,124; secured, £4,800 ; and liabilities about £7,000. The assets being —property given up, £750; ditto in the hands of creditors, £520. Mr Lawrance, for the assignees, said he assented to a suggestion of Mr C. E. Lewis, for the bankrupt, that an adjournment should take place for two months, with a view of effecting an arrangement with the creditors. His Honour said he was very happy to hear so, as it would be much better for all parties and all purposes, and he hoped the bankrupt would do all he could for his creditors. Adjourned accordingly. IN RE CIIATEL.-" A. IIESSNIAN'' IN A STEW. This bankrupt was formerly messman to the Royal Artil lery at the camp at Shoeburyness, and this was a meeting for last examination and discharge. The debts amounted to £270, but only one creditcr proved, and chose himself assignee, and opposed on various grounds, and Mr. Abrahams pressed for an adjournment for further accounts. Mr Morris, for the bankrupt, said it was a hard case on the bankrupt. He was a Frenchman, and could speak English but imperfectly, and could not write it at all. The books had been kept by a soldier; it was therefore prepos terous to ask him for a cash goods and delivery account for twelve months. He had given a cash account, but the de ficiency was not on the mess transactions, but through his having opened a coffeehouse near the Strand. All the cre ditors would have agreed to a deed of arrangement, but Mr Abrahams's client stood out and put the bankrupt in prison, and he had to apply to this court. Mr Abrahams and his client were creditors for £32. His Honour said that from what he saw of the case there did not appear the slightest idea of fraud ; the bankrupt was a foreigner and had been in prison for five weeks; he had never been bankrupt before, and was entitled to his discharge. Mr Morris said that unfortunately the bankrupt had through these proceedings lost his position, as he would not be received as messman again, having been bankrupt. His Honour—Surely that cannot be. Mr Morris--I fear it is—the bankrupt would no doubt have gone back to the Artillery, that was why we wished to arrange by deed, Mr Abrahams—Then let him annul th© bankruptcy. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day, THAMES. Tun SNAKE IN TUE GRAss.—A young woman, named Josephine VJigmer, was brought before Mr Partridge, charged with felony under very aggravated circumstances. The prosecutrix in this case is Mrs Frederica Pasch, the wife of Mr Pasch, an hotel keeper, No. 6, Haydon-square, Minories. The parties are all Germans. Ever since the prisoner's arrival in this country a few months since, Mrs Pasch had employed her four days in every week, and some times more frequently, as a needlewoman, at Is per day and her board. In the course of that time Mrs Pasch had missed linen, ribbons, dresses; handkerchiefs, jewellery, and a variety of other property. She had discharged several indoor servants she suspected of having robbed her, and the prisoner had artfully contrived to fix suspicion on others while she avoided suspicion herself, annd was thought for a long time to be all honesty and perfection. The pilfering had been going on for five months. The pri soner lent a pair of drawers to a young woman named Anne Kaisu, a native of Germany, and servant in the hotel. Mrs Pasch happened to see the drawers two or three days ago and identified them as her property. Her initials were upon them. The prisoner (who is a married woman, and living with her husband at No. 17, South-square, West minster) was sent for, and asked by Mrs Pasch, "Have you got anything belonging to me ?" The prisoner said she had not. The woman, Kaisu was then called, and spoke to the prisoner about the drawers. The prisoner said, "Don't put use to trouble, and I'll give up all the thinF:s ; why not come to me before you went to Mrs Pasch," The prosecutrix then said, "If you will give up everything I will make it all right, and nut prosecute." The prisoner not being disposed to restore the plunder, she was given into custody, and a police constable, 116 11, proceeded to her lodging, No. 17, Sou'h-square, where ho found a For • tion of the stolen property. A pawnbroker's assistant, named William M'Lachlan, produced a pair of gold eartops pledged by prisoner on the 22d February last, Mrs Pasch identified them as her property. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Mr. Partridge said this was, a very bad case. The pri soner had acted the part of et snake in the grass, and brought a charge against one situation, and es e sentenced h er t o be impriso;e4 for 0 Mouths 'poor and in no c e nt g i r l, w h o l os t h er 4nEed M rs P asc h to suspect other poor bard labour. servants. F and kept I THE CITY OF RlCHMOND..—Richmond, by the last census, had a population of 38,000 souls, but the great influx of civil and military officers and refugees from other parts of the State has probably raised it to a much higher figure. It is situated at the head of tide water, at the lower falls of James River, about 150 miles from its mouth. The city occupies a most picturesque situation, being built on Richmond and Shockhoe hills, which are separated by Shockhoe Creek, and surrounded by beautiful scenery. It is regularly laid out and well built, the streets, which are lighted with gas, crossing each other at right angles. On Shockboe Hill are the State Capitol and other public buiidings. The Capitol is an imposing edifice, and contains, in its central hall, Houden'a celelebrated statue of Washington. On the east of the square is the Governor's mansion. Jefferson Davis's residence is a private mansion, which was pun chas'ed for him by the rebel Government. ThG city has I' any fine public buildings, six banks, thirteen news papers, and twenty-three churches. In one of the three Presbyterian churches Jefferson Davis worships. The falls of James River afford immense water power, and there! are very extensive factories, including four cotton and about 50 tobacco factories, flour mills, rolling mills, forges, furnaces, machine shops, &c., the latter of which, and particularly the Tredegee Ironworks, have been of immense service to the rebels in turning out ordnance and material of war. Tho annual exports of Richmond before the rebellion reached nearly 7„000,000 dols., and its imports 750,000 dols. But since it had the honour of being the rebel capital its foreign commerce has been extin guished. Vessels or gunboats drawing 10 feet can ascend to within a mile of the city, at a place called the Rockets. Ves • sets of 15 feet draught ascend to 'Warwick, 3 miles below. A canal has been built around the fella, and above them there is navigation for 2CO miles. The James River Rana • wha Canal, intended to extend to Covington, is completed for 200 miles. Richmond has very extensive railroad commus nications, being the terminus of five roads--running t o Fredericksburg and the Potomac, to West Point and the York River, Petersburg and Norfolk, to Danville, Virginia, to Jackson's River, by the Central Railroad-- and from these the connections lead all through the Southern States. Opposite the city are two towns of Spring Hill and Manchester. Richmond was founded in 1742, b e came the capit a l o f th e S ta t e of V irginia in 1779, and in June, 1861, it was made the beat of Government of the "Confederate States of America," whose Congress as sembled there on July 20. Its history since then is only too familiar to the esuntry. Around the city are various hills, extending a great distance, on the most important of which fortifications were erected in the d.iye of the "On to Richmond cry,"—Xce YOY/ - ; 710:31e, COURT OF ALDERME IV. A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday at Guildhall— Mr Alderman Finnis in the chair. Mr Alderman STONE brought forward a motion, with the view of still rendering some of the regulations which had been recently rejected by Sir G. Grey, the Home Secretary, available for facilitating the traffic of the city under the provisions of the act of last year. He sought to show, in the first place, that so far from there having been any delay or timidity on the part of the Court of Aldermen in putting the act into operation, the contrary was the case; and that they had endeavoured for the last six months to obtain the opinion of the Home Secretary as to the code of bye-laws, which they had carefully framed under the powers confer• red upon them by the statute. Referring to the correspond ence which had passed between Sir G. Grey and the corpo ration on the subject of the proposed bye-laws, Mr Wad dington, under date of Jan. 28, said the Home Secretary had felt great doubt whether the Court of Aldermen, in framing the regulations which they had submitted to him, had kept strictly within their power of making bye-laws conferred by the act. Ho referred, for example, to a few instances only. Bye-law No. 2, he said, prohibited during certain hours any vehicle drawn by more than four horses in the streets, that was in all streets without any restriction or limitation. By bye law 6 delivery of coals, beer, wine, or other liquid in casks was prohibited in certain hours in certain streets. By bye-law 12 the sale of a variety of articles carried upon vehicles was forbidden in certain streets; and by bye law 15 the court not only appointed standings for shoeblacks, but delegated its authority in that respect to the Commissioner of City police. Sir George Grey could not find that any express or implied power was conferred by the late act which authorised those regu lations, and he therefore asked whether they had been submitted to the legal advisors of the corporation. Tha Recorder and Common Sergeant, in a case which was afterwards submitted to them, gave it as their opinion that the bye. laws which had been framed by the Court of Alder men were within the power conferred upon the corpora ti m by the Act, with the exception of the proviso to the 15th, which in future authorised the commissioner of City p lice to appoint and alter standings for shoeblacks. The whole question, with the opinion of the law officers of the corporation, was e,ulistfouentiv leere-^ xseuerat ana me Solicitor General for their opinion, and they expressed their regret that they could not agree with the Recorder and Common Sergeant. "Of the bye-laws in question," they added, " the Ist, 4th, sth, 16th, and part of the 15th (down to the proviso) are clearly conformable to the act, and may be enforced by the penalties therein pro vided, but the rest of the bye-laws, however proper and expedient such regulations may be in themselves, seem to us to be beyond the scope of the authority given by the act, and therefore not liable to be enforced by its penalties.'' They went on to say, "It seems to us that the words ' such streets' properly mean only those streets or parts of streets, which by any bye-laws or regulations to be made under the act may be ordered to be used by omnibuses, &c., and other public conveyances for passengers." Taking, therefore, the interpretation of the act by the law officers of the crown to be correct, it followed that if the Court of Aldermen might make bye-laws regulating the routes of omnibuses and other passenger vehicles through the streets of the City, they would be enabled by the same clause to make such regula tions in other respects for facilitating the traffic as they might deem it necessary, provided they confined them solely to the streets in which they controlled the direction of omni buses and other passenger conveyances, That being so, the act might yet be brought substantially into operation, for their powers to regulate the course of omnibuses extended to all the main thoroughfares, He therefore moved a reso lution to the effect that the Court of Aldermen deemed it highly desirable that every reasonable endeavour should be made to carry into effect as far as possible the provisions of the City Traffic Regula tion Act of 185'5, in addition to the bye-laws already passed ; and that it be referred to the general purposes committee to further consider the subject, to consult the law officers for the purpose of framing such other modified regulations as might appear sufficient to meet the objec tions, and to obtain the requisite sanction of the Secretary of State, The motion was seconded by Mr Alderman LUSK, and carried unanimously. On the bringing up of a report relating to the new City Lunatic Asylum at Dartford, Mr Alderman Lusi complained of tho tardy completion of the building and the delay in removing the pauper lunatics to it. The CHAIMINN explained that until the asylum was finished it could not be handed over to the care of the magistrates. The Court then adjourned. MARKETS --This Day, COVENT GARDEN, Our market is seasonably well suppliEd with fruit and vegetables. Most descriptions of produce command a steady sale, at the annEx.ed rates. FRUIT. S. d. s. 6. ! Pine apples 6 oto 8 0 Colonial do., each 0 oto 0 6 Grapes,per lb 4 0 to 10 0 Foreign do 0 oto 0 0 1 Melons.... Nectarines, per dz 0 oto 0 0 Apples, per hf-sv. 3 oto 6 0 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100 5 oto 12 0 Lemons, per 100 4 oto 8 0 Gooseberries hf svet oto 3 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 6to 1 0 s. d. s d Mulberries,prpt..o 0 to - 0 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 4to 1 0 Foreign ditto, punt) oto 0 0 Filberts, per lb 0 oto 0 Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0 Cobnuts, per lb 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0 Figs, per 10z 0 oto 0 0 Peaches.. • Currants, per h.sv 0 oto 0 0 Plums, per d o . „ 0 oto 0 0 G reeng ages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 2 6to 2 9 Shallots, per lb .. 0 o to 0 0 Cabbages, pr doz 0 9 to 1 3' Horseradish, pdo 1 oto 2 6 IPici ditto 0 oto 0 0 Parsley, p3r ditt o 0 oto 0 0 _ Savoy do., pr dz. 0 o to 0 0 ; Celery, per ditto. 0 oto 0 0 Cauliflowers, pdz 1 cto 3 0 I B ee t , per doz. • • 0 o to 0 0 Pottoes, Bro a coli sprouts per ton 50 0 t o 60 0 i Small salac. p. Pri, New ditto, pr lb 6 o tolo 0 ! Mushrooms, p pt. 0 oto 0 0 Turnips, dz bunch 3 o to 4 0 Artichokes, each ° oto 0 0 Carrots,pr do 4 6 to 5 0 ) Cos lett, score .. 0 B to 1 3 Cucumbers • 03to 1 6 ' Mint and saory..o oto 0 0 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 ot o 0 0 ; Radishes, d z hnds 0 oto 0 0 0 oto o 9 to 1 6 , Rhubarb, pe r 6' bun 0 2 to 0 4 Spinach 0 oto 0 Brussels sprouts 0 oto 0 0 Se kale, ' bun. 0 0 Aspara , us pr do. 2 6 to 4 0 e, per _ _0 to 0 POU LTRY. 0 Turkeys, Os Od to Os Cd ; 5s Od to is Od each goslings, 4s Gd to 6s ; ducks 2s Od - to 3s 6d ; ducklings: to Os —d ; pigeons, Os 4d to Os 7d each; 2s Od to 3s Gd; rabbits, 13 Oct ' to is 4d each; wild do " 14s Od to ISs Oct; chickens, 8s Od to 9s Od ; barn door fowls, 4s Od to 7s Od ; capons, Os Od ; hares, Os Od to Os ; ptarmigan, Os Od to Os Od each • ; pleas nos, Os to Os Od ; partridges, Os to Os Od ; woodcocks P Os to Os Od ; snipes, Oct to Os Od; teal, Os Oct to Os Od ; wild " ducks, Os Od to Os Od ; widgeons, Os Od to Os Od ; plovers, Os Od to Od each ; guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; roastino• Surrey fowls, pigs, Os Od to Os Oct each ; Ostend fresh butter, 10d to Os - 11 - d ; English, Os lld to is Od per lb ; En g li s h eggs, 78 od to os od ; Fron.ch do., 5s Gd to Gs Od per 100 ; loverets, 2 s Od to 4.3 Od ; grouse, Os Oct to Os Od. BILLING S GATE. Salmon, is 4d to is &l; trout, Od to O s : ee ls, 5d to 10d ; prawns, Os; pike, skate, sturg eon and halibut, 6 d per lb ; turbots, 3s Od to 12 s ; cod, Os Od to Os Od • brills, 2s Od to Gs Od ; dorevs, 28 Od to 2s 6d ; mullets, Os 6 d to is 6 d ; lobsters, is to 3s Od; crabs, 6 d to 2s 6cl plaice and gurnets, Od to Os Od each; soles, 3 d to 3 3 O d per pair; common oysters, lOs to 20s ; nativ es , G ls to 70s per bush. ; whitings, 4s Od to 8s; haddocks, 6 s t o 12s ; smelts, Os Od to Os Od; flounders, Os Od per doz en; mackerel, 40s per 100 ; fresh herrings, 7s to Ss per 100; bloaters, Os to Os per 100; carp and touch, Os Od to Os per brace. W HITECIT.,tpEL. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 2d; mutton, 3s 63 to 41 8d; lamb, 5s Od to 68 Od ; veal, 3s 10d to 43 Bd% and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 6d per Sibs by the carcase. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; mutt on , 3s Scl to 4s 8d ; lamb, 53 Od to Cs Od; veal, 33 10d to 48 scl; and pork, 38 4d to 43 Od per Slbs, by the carcase. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 61d to 7d, of household do., 5d to 6d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKI NS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 21d t o 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 31d ; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 4d ; 801 b to 881 b, 31d to 41d 881 b to 961 b, 4d to 41d; 961 b to 1041 b, --d to Od ; 10416 to 1121b,—d to —d. Horse hides, lOs Od to 12s Od ; calf skins, Od to Os Od ; half.breds, —s Oda o —s I n d ' Downs —s Od to —s Od; lambs, 2s 9d to 4s 9d; sheallgs light, 2s Od to 4s ; full, 8 to Os Od ; polled sheep, 8s , 2s 2d ' to 2s 4d. HAY DIARK2TS. and straw, 4s to ;fa lOs per load. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, ..-C£22lsissstot: 4£140:008d;;eclloovveerr; .€4l Os to £5 10a Od; and straw, £1 is to £1 10s per load. Trade inactive. £4 C o u s m t n o - E2 s LA i rr os D. o — ci A slow sale. WnrrEctiArzr, _Meadow hay, £2lsa to £4108; clover, £4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; £ 1 43 to £1 10 s per l oa d, Trade dull, gad straw, Mr William Miller was yesterday appointed chief cashier of the BAnk of England, in the place of Mr Matthew Marshall, who recently resigned. Mr Miller has been employed in the Bank daring a period of 31 years, and has occupied the position of deputy cashier since 1553. Mr George Forbes, the second assistant cashier, has been promoted to the post of deputy cashier. REFORM MEETING AT NEWAR K ,_ On Monday evening a public meeting on the subject of Parlia mentary reform was held in the Corn Ex c h ange , Newark — Mr Finder, sen., in the chair. Mr Joh n Gl ov er moved, and Mr. Godley seconded, the following r eso l ut i on :—" That the eminent services rendered to this country by the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone entitle him to the esteem of his fellow-countrymen ; that as a statesman who has proved himself as conscientious as he is patriotic, as cautious as he is earnest, and as successful in measures as he is manly and eloquent in defending them, he has the entire confidence of the working classes; that whilst acknowledging the many benefits ho has conferred upon the community, this meet ing of the non-electors of the borough of Newark desires especially to record its thankfulness to the right hon. gen tleman for his recent speech on the subject of reform." Mr. Earp, in supporting the resolution in an able speech, alluded to 'Nix Gladstone's former connection with Newark. On the motion of Mr Johnstone, seconded by Mr Gabbitas, thanks were passed to the members cf the borough for their eon , sistent support of reform. The Danish Blockade. (From the Supplement to lie _London Gazette of yesterday.) FOREIGN OFFICE, JUNE 24. The following note has been received by Earl Russell, her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, from the Danish Minister at this Court : "Legation of Denmark, June 24. "My Lord,—By your Excellency's note of June 14, I was requested to give information as to whether, in the event of hostilities being renewed on the 26th inst., and a blockade of German ports by Danish ships of war re-established, due notice cf such blockade would be given, and due time af f orded to British merchant vessels to leave the ports proposed to be blockaded. I did not fail to submit at once your lordship's note to my Govern ment, and I have now the honour to state in reply that if hostilities should be renewed on the 26th the blockade of the ports of Cammin, Swinemunde, Wolgast, Greifswalde, Stralsund, Birth, Dantsic, and Pillau in the Baltic, as well as the blockade of the ports and inlets in the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, which was raised on the 12th of May, in conformity with the stipulations of the suspension of hostilities, will immediately be re-established; that neutral ships which, after the renewal of the war, might attempt to enter any of the blockaded ports, would not, however, be subject to capture unless where previous notice of the re-establishment of the blockade had been received by them, either in the ordinary way or through the ships of the blockading squadron itself; and that a short but sufficient space of time would be accorded for leaving the blockaded ports to those neutral ships which, atthe time of the re-establishment of the blockade, might be in those ports. " I have, 8:2., The Roypi RoxrPraisr, T. BILLET' The turret ship Royal Sovereign, manned with a crew from the Steam Reserve at Portsmouth, and under the command of Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8., left that harbour yesterday morning for Spithead to more fully test her powers of circling under full boiler power with the use of the pilot house wheel (the only wheel she would steer with when under fire), and also to test the steam capstans with whieh she is fitted below in weighing anchor by steam, and also by manual labour in the ordinary method with capstan bars, and her fittings on deck for catting and fishing her anchor, &a. The two experimental circles were first made with the pilot house wheel, the first being made to starboard, with 12 men at the wheel, and the rudder hove over to an angle of 241 deg. in 59 sec. The half circle was made in 3 min 5 sec, and completed to the full circle in 6 min 49 sec. The second circle was made to port, and the rudder was hove over to en angle of 214 deg (12 men at the wheel as before), in 1 min. 10 sec. The half circle was made in 3 min. 1 sec., and the full circle completed in 5 min. 54 sec. In the first circle the wheel had 61 turns, and in the second 7 turns. The diameter of the circles was apparently about three times the vessel's length. The ship was next placed in the channel between the Noman and Dean shoals, and, stern way having been got on her, her starboard bower anchor was let go in 17 fathoms, and the cable veered to the fourth shackle et the hawse-pipe. The chain was then unbitted and brought to the steam capstan (Brown and Harfield's patent) on the 'tween decks, and the anchor hove up again. The object of doing this was, on the part of the officials from the dockyard, merely to twit offi cially the powers of the steam capstan, but to Capt. Coles, who was present, and to Capt. Cardwell it proved the power of the Royal Sovereign to weigh her anchors under circumstances where most other ships would be obliged to slip them. She might bo lying at anchor in a river and be suddenly attacked by other vessels or a boat flotilla, and unable to show a man on deck, or she might have to defend herself and get her anchor with her crew weakened by the absence of men in boats or by sickness, and in this case a very few men could, with the aid of the steam capstan, run the anchor up to the bows, while the remainder could work the guns in the turrets, and not a man need show himself to the enemy. The port anchor was afterwards let go, and weighed again in the ordinary manner with capstan bar 3 by the crew, exhibiting, however, very clearly the superiority of steam power for the purpose, A fear had been expressed that the shackles would not pass round the capstan so securely as the links of the cable, and, to test them fully in the manner, they were passed round both vertically and hori zon taliy. They " bit" well in both positions, but it required care to deliver the chain safely off the capstan and round the rollers. The cat and fish gear for securing the anchors, novel of their kind, like all the other deck fittings of the ship,were next tested in their turn, and it was found that, with a few slight modifications, they will answer their purpose admirably. This concluded the day's tests, and the Royal Sovereign steamed in through Spithead and the Channel fleet, and returned to her berth alongside the dockyard about 5 p.m. The steering gear fitted to the pilot-house has a lead of four-fifths the length of the ship to the rudder•head aft, and under such circumstances neither ropes nor chains fitted in the ordinary way cpuld convey the whole of the work of the wheel to the rudder. To meet adequately a contingency of this kind, the ship's pilot-house wheel is connected with the rudder by metal bars forward and a disc aft, the result being tiAat there is no " give" of rope or chain, while the die e: imparts the full amount of the force created by the wheel to the head of the rudder. We understand this is an improvement on a plan somewhat similar to the one fitted on board the mail steamer Adriatic by one of the shipwright officers of Portsmouth Dockyard. Confederate View of the Americau Campaigh e (From t 7 _lndex.) There seems to be very little doubt that General Grant has made up his mind to adopt another line of advance upon Richmond, and that the next mail will bring us the intelligence of a still closer imita tion of 111'CleIlan's strategy, and another change of base, defeated at Spottsylvania, foiled at Saxton's Junction, defeated again on the Chickahominy, the Federal commander has evidently resolved upon trying a new point in the Confederate armies; and everything tends to prove that his next move will be towards the James River. General :\PC:ellan perseveringly maintained that the James River route was the real road to Richmond, though it is only fair to say that he never proved its advantages, and only discovered them when every other route had failed, and when it was too late to try the new one. General Grant has trodden so closely in his footsteps that it is per fectly natural he should try his predecessor's " forlorn hope," and to the last moment delude the North into the belief that he is bent upon marching into Richmond. At the same time, there is a suggestive weakness in this change of base which implies far more anxiety about a safe retreat than an easy advance, and we shall begin to think, when once Grant's march across the Chickahominy to the James River is announced, that the end of the campaign is not very distant. We are, of cours e , very much in the dark as to the result of the recent operations on the north bank of the Chickahominy. All Southern reports are carefully excluded from Northern newspapers. The correspondence from the army is carefully edited by Mr Stanton's sub ordinates. Federal victories are magnified, Federal reverses are dwarfed, and everything is narrated in the tone most calculated to help Mr Lincoln's chances of the Presidential election. Take the battle of the 31 instant. It is now admitted that a general action was fought on that day—that the Federals attacked Lee's lines with their whole force, and were repulsed with frightful loss. It is even asserted that at one moment they held the key of the position, but that Grant, unwilling to reap a victory which would cost him a great loss of life, withdrew after three hours' engagement and the loss of 7,000 men. Yet that action was described in a previous mail as a mere reconnaissance in force, which cost two or three colonels and "loss not very severe," although it really amounted to a defeated attempt to force Lee's lines and drive his whole army into Richmond. It is difficult, then, to guess what confidence is to be placed in the reports of the New York papers or in Mr. Stanton's despatches, but if we take their own accounts, and draw our opinions from them, we shall probably not be far wrong in deciding that the battle of the 3d was conclusive as to the campaign on the Chickahominy, and rendered Grant's change of base an actual ne cessity. The question arises for what point Grant will make. He is, as usual, moving by his left, and is reported to have reached Despatch Station on the Chickahominy. This would seem to imply an in• tention of taking up a position somewhat nearer to Richmond than Harrison's Landing,and in advance of Butler's lines. But we are inclined to believe that if Grant does make for the James River, his line of march will be nearly identical with the route adopted by M'Clellan. In that case he will have arrived on the north bank of the James River almost on the same day of the year as his predecessor, and his army will be subjected to precisely the same malarious influences which decimated M'Clellan's forces. Bad water, marsh miasmata, and a Vir ginian July sun would speedily dispose of his army without the necessity of a blow from Lee. But M'Clellan's army, even after the 7 days' fighting,was formidable. Lee's forces, although victorious, had suffered heavily, and were not in a condition to follow up their victory. Things are different now. Every week adds to Lee's strength. Rich mond is secured against a coup de main ; and, since the advance upon R;chmond is restricted to a single route, Lee can aff...rd to trust very much to the de fences of the Southern capital, and make use of his available forces for a' ow that would speedily com pel Lincoln to think more of defending Washing ton than of taking Richmond. As it is, there is nothing to prevent a Confederate force marching to the Potomac. Confederate guerillas are virtually in possession of the country from Arlington Heights to the northern line of Richmond. If Lee can spare the men, he has already an opportunity of dealing a blow which will be as useful for the defence of Richmond as another successful repulse of Grant's army. But it is said to be the Federal General's p:an to establish himself on both banks of the James River, to advance, Ala Halleck, a mile a week, by the aid of the spade; and by means of his superiority of cavalry to cut the communications of Richmond, and compel Lee to evacuate Richmond without risking the failure of an assault. Really there is no end to the inge nuity of Federals strategists. The attack, which began on the north side of Richmond, is now to be transferred to the south side. The route which was so obviously the only safe advance to Richmond is to be abandoned, and a new line immeasurably superior is to be adopted ; and all the time the Northern press is in ecstasies over the generalship of Grant, and implicitly believes that Richmond will fall, like Jericho, at the blast of a trumpet, so soon as Grant arrives before the walls. For our own part, we are of opinion that the further Grant moves to the south, the more feeble must be his hope of reaching Richmond; that every mile he places between his army and Washington is a gain to the Confederates; and that we shall soon hear of combinations of the Confederate troops which will ef f ectually relieve Richmond for many months to come. Sherman's prospects are not more favourable than those of the army in Virginia. In Georgia, also, the Federal army has suffered defeat and loss. In two battles the Confederates have taken the initiative. In one the Federals claim a victory, in the other they acknowledge a defeat. A frightful list of killed and wounded and sick has been sent northwards. Southern reports already place at 45,000 the casualties in Sherman's army from one cause or another. And we learn from Northern sources that the advance has ceased; that Johnston, reinforced by Polk and Finnegan, hes turned to bay; that the news of the capture of Marietta is false; and that before Sherman can hope to settle doNin to the siege of Atalanta, he has got to fl ~he an army of 60 0,000 m en , com manded by one of the best officers in the Confede rate army occupying an immensely strong posi tion. From Chattanooga to Ackwcrth the distance is 120 miles. A single line of railway is all Sher man has to depend on for his supplies ; and Forrest, with a large cavalry force, is said to be making for his communications. It is contrary to all experi ence that Sherman's army should succeed, and we believe a very short time will elapse before Sher man repeat s t h e retrogra d e move m e nt h e ma d e i n the spring i n the State of Mississippi. In the mean time the Confederates are astir in Kontucky ; they are threatening, Cincinnati—they have destroyed four gunboats and several transports on the Missis sippi, and they are gradually acquiring quite a respectable fleet by captures in Southern waters. The Federals have sacrificed everything for the capture of Richmond and Atalanta. At present they have achieved no success to compensate them for the territory they have abandoned and the losses they have endured. DANGEROUS CONDITION OF HEENAN.—Among the most serious sufferers from the recent railway accident at Egham is John C. Heenan, the:Benicia Boy. It appears that Heenan looked from his carriage •window when the first alarm was given, and finding a collision inevitable, jumped on to the platform as the train was moving, and falling heavily, injured his spine so severely that he has suffered from a continuous succession of fits ever since. His own doctor (Mr Clark) and the ccmpany 's surgeon (Dr. Solly) have been in constant attendance upon him since the accident, and from 8 o'clock on Sunday night until S o'clock on Monday night he was never left by his medical men, as he no sooner recovered from one fit than a more violent one succeeded. Heenan, according to the latest inquiries, was better, but is at present confined to his bed. Poor Ihenan has b ee n most unfortunate since Lis arrival in this country, and this lost disaster is the crowning miafo:tune of his English cater. Lord Abinger and his Butler, At the Hammersmith Police-court yesterday, Samuel Hanson, huller to the Dowager Lady Abinger, of Queen's gate-terrace, Kensington, surrendered to his bail before Mr Ingham, on a charge of being drunk and assaulting Lord Abinger. Mr Lewis, of Ely-place, appeared for the defendant. . , Lord William Frederick Abinger stated that he returned home with her ladyship feom a party about half-past 11 o'clock on Tuesday night, and on entering the ball he saw that the defendant had been drinking. He told the defen dant that Jae was drunk, but he rep Lied that he was not. Witness, supposing that there had been 0• carousal among the servants, and being afraid of serious injury in the stables, proceeded through defendant's room, which led i s o the back yard, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the' horses were safe. However, when he got into the room he fouod a female sitting on the bed, and the defendant represented he. - . to be a friend. She gave witness her name and address, and said the gentleman, pointing to the defendant, had brought her there, and that she had never seen him before. Witness then walked her to the front door, followed by defendant, who used very foul language, and said he hated Lady Abinger, and that he would not serve her. lie (witness) could not tolerate such conduct, and he thought there was not any gentleman who would either, and he requested the defendant to follow the female, and told him that he did not feel justified in allowing him to remain any longer in the house. He refused, and witness then took him by the collar for the purpose of removing him from the house, not using any more force than was necessary. Lao defen dant resisted and struck him. Witness released his hold, and struck the defendant in return. They had a severe struggle. Wiliness knocked him down, and they had a fight. Her ladyship being in a nervous state ho was very anxious that there should not be any more noise than was neces sary, and when his servant came up ho requested him to pacify the defendant. Witness then walked upstairs to his room, Be was proceeding to wash himself wheu the de fendant entered the room, and said " I have got you both now; I'll do for you and I'll kick her ladyship." Witness was not then prepared for fighting. The defendant struck him on the face and gave hid, a black eye. Witness fought him again. The defendant used very disgusting language towards her ladyship, tho 'witness fought away to the door to draw him from the inside, as she could have heard every word in the adjoining room. Witness afterwards went out for a constable, an.: gave the defendant in charge. Witness regretted very much to have to bileg the case to that court, as the defendant's wife was a very respectable woman, and had been 15 years in the service of the family. Mr Ingham fined the defendant £3, and in default of payment to he imprisoned 11 daye with hard labour. The fine was immediately paid. At the annual meeting yesterday of the share holders of the St. John del Rey Mining Company the re port presented for adoption stated that the produce of gold at Morro Velho for the past year amounted to 476,005 octavos. The net profit realised had been £63,235 lls 4d, and the interest that had meanwhile accrued represented £528 4s 4d. After paying the dividertd last December, the directors now proposed to pay £2 103 per share, free of in come tax, which a d m itt e d o f £26.5, 135 7 5 being carried to the irofit and lc n at:cu-at 131 f 143 i 6. 40} 1 lin I 971 1301 f Business don, 72& 67 6 ICli 5 10 / 3 SECOND EDITION. UN OF; ?..CE, HALF -PAST 4 O'CLOCK. Death of th& King of Wurtemberg, STUTTGARD, JUNE 25, King William I. of Wurtemberg died at Rosen heim Castle, at 5 o't flock this morning. His Majesty was 'born on September 27, 1781. BETTING AT ITANCHESTER—Friday, ----- o -- There was a small r ttendance at the rooms to-clay, and business was almost entirely confined to the Northunier land Plate, for which Daktchi Serai continued in force, 5 to 1 being taken freely. Sir Roger is backed at the same price, while Caller Ott found friends at 6 to 1. In other respects the betting was uniniportant. Closing prices : NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE. 9to 2 agst Baktchi S3rai ( ~ Iff.red) (tale 5 to 1 freely) sto 1 agst Sir Roger (taken) 6to 1 agst Caller Ou (taken and offered) 9to l agst Found Again (offered) 10 to 1 agst Trust (offered) 100 to 9 agst Alice (taken) 100 to 6 agst Oldminster (offered) 25 to 1 agst Borealis (offered) THE DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 100 to 7 agst Ely (taken) THE DERPY Or 1865. Bto lon the field (offered) WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will of the most noble Elizabeth, Duchess of Gordon, of Huntly Lodge, Aberdeen, was proved in her Majesty's Court of Probate in London on the 33 inst.—the executors being the Right Hon. Jas. Alexander, Earl of Rosslyn, P.C., and Henry R. Cox and Charles Hammersley, Eq., both of Craig's-court, Westminster. The personalty was sworn under £60,000. Her ladyship was the daughter of Alexander Brodie, Esq., and married, in 1813, George, fifth Duke of Gordon, who died in 1836 ; title extinct. Her Grace's will bear date September, 1862. After reciting several annuities made chargeable upon her estate, she bequeaths a sum of £3,000 towards the building of the Gordon Schools, and for the benefit of the Female School of Industry and Infant School at Huntly. There are several bequests to hzr relatives and personal friends, and she has bequeathed the residue of her property to her cousin, W. Brodie, Eeq., of Brodie. Legacies are also left to servants—to two of them I'soo each, to another £2OO, and to the others according to length of servitude. The will of Francis Edward Smedley, Rig., of Grove Lodge, Regent's Park, and Beech Lodge, Great Marlow, Berks, was proved in the London Court under £70,000 personally. The executors are the Rev. Henry John Ellison, M.A., Prebendary of Lichfield and Vicar of New Winthor, Berks, and George Montagu Jail, Esq., of Jermyn-street, Piccadilly. The testator has bequeathed to his mother his residence, Beech Lodge, and the furniture, together with an annuity of £500; and to his cousin, Menella Bate Smedley, like annuity of £5OO, and upon her decease an an.• nuity of £250 to her mother. To other relatives liberal annuities and legacies are bequeathed. To his cousin, Mrs. Hart, £2,000 is left towards the building and endowment of a church at Glen Alla, Donegal, Ireland, in lien of a legacy to her, at her own request. To several of his acquaintances be quests are made varying in amount; to his execu tors :000 each; and to his servants liberal legacies. All bequests are to be paid free of legacy duty. The residue, real and personal, is bequeathed to his said cousin, Menella Bute Smedley. The will of the Rev. John Pinckney, D.D., late of East Sheen, Surrey, formerly of Laleham, Mid. dlesex, was proved in London under £120,000 per. sonalty. The executors are his sons, Eryls man Charles Pinckney, Eeq. ; the Reverend W. Pinckney, and George Henry Pinckney, Esq. The will was executed in 1856. After leaving a legacy of £6,000 East India Steck in trust for his son Horatio, and £3,000 to his son Erlysnaan, and annuities of £4O, £2O, and £lO to three of his old servants, the testator divides the residue of his property, real and personal, into four equal parts amongst his three sons, who are his executors, and his daughter Henrietta, wife of G. Wood, E-1., M.D. The will of Mrs. Eliza M. Claridge, who died at Nice, in France, in the early part of this year, has been proved in the London Court under £30,000; the will of Thomas Boulton, Esq., of Madingley Lodge, Kensington, under £20,000 personalty; and that of Mr. Henry Burnell, of Cheyne•walk, Chel sea, £2o,ooo.—lllustrated London News. Course of the Exchange.--.• Yesterday. Amsterdam Ditto Rotterdam .. 12 01 Antwerp. . Erns•sels — 25 CO flamburgh — 13 8!.• Paris Ditto Nlerseilles 'frankfort on Ilaine — 120 Vienna Trieste Peteniburgh Berlin — 11 771 12 0j 12 O 25 621 25 621 13 9 25 221 25 621 25 621 120- 11 95 11 95 311 I\lacirid Cadiz Leghorn Milan Genoa Naples Palermo Messina 48k 25 621 25 621- 25 621 25 65 25 65 25 65 4S 25 70 26 70 25 67i 2 . 5 70 25 70 25 7o Lisbon 511 .., Oport0...- Foreign Gold in Bars (Standar4), per 0z.... £3 17 9 Mexicans Dollars . .............. 0 0 ° Slyer inßars ( Standard) ... •' • ............ 0 0 0 NORTH DURHAM ELECTION.—Tho High Sheriff of Durham has appointed Tuesday next for the elec tion of a member for the northern division of the county of Durham, to serve in Parliament in place of the late Lord A. V. Tempest, There is no opposition to Sir Hedworth Williamson, the Liberal candidate, and it is officially an nounced that his return will not be contested, "The steamvessel Yeddo," says the Gironde, " Which has just been constructed in the building yard of M. Arman, of this city (Bordeaux), and which is supposed to belong to the Confederate Government, left the roadstead yesterday morning. She had made a trial trip on Monday last, and completed her preparations on the follow ing day. The Yeddo measures 682 tens, and has a crew (entirely Frenet) of 65 men. She is commanded by Captain Pater, who is a native of France also, and was for a long time master of vessels belonging to Bordeaux. She is freighted with different kinds of goods, and is despatched ri:oint ''orts by M. Arma n hi mse lf t h rough M. C ausse , s hi p b roker. The Yeddo i s b oun d f or Amster d am ; b u t everythi ng con cerning her dep ar t ure an d t h e o bj ec t a nd aim of her v oyage remained a p ro f oun d mystery. T o the last mom ent t h e freighters, ( la cers , an d seamen maintained an ab so l u t e silence to all th e ques ti ons pu t to them." HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST, BRUMPTON.—The pretty little chapel (provided through the beneficence of the chairman of the committee, some 14 years ago, for the use of the patients and others connected with this institution) , will be throws open to the public on Sunday morning next , on the occa sion of the anniversary sermon , wh i c h w ill bo preached by the Bishop of Ossory (the Righ t R ev Dr 0 'Ben chapel o f, tfe c i o s n gfittedregaut congregation; n w ; i t a h n t d h a e utmost pleasing regard to the (ffee:, is imparted to the interior, by the numerous stained glass windows, which, with the ornamental carving, were designed by Mr E. B. Lamb, the architect of the chapel. The approach to the chapel is through the lodge gates, in the Fulham-road. THE HOWLING DOG.—in the c int> assigned to the cleoagof e %., c the o the ,ryan tt , s, si;itlToesi thatsenge verfrryom the world of the de, we super stition which recogni ses a death-omen wide-spread d thee - sp rea d howlingo of a dog. An intelligent Londoner tells me he has ellen seen the omen given, and verified its fulfilment. Th e dog's mode of proceeding on such occasions, he say', ie this—The animal tries to get under the doomed pereon's window; but if the house stands within an enclosure, and it cannot get in, it runs rcund the premises very uneasily, or paces up and down them like a sentry. If the deg succeeds in making an entry, it stops under the window, howls horribly, finishes with three tremendous barks, and hurries away. The same superstition prevails in France and in Germany. In the latter country, a dog howling before a house portends either a death or a gee. If it howls along the highway, that is held iri Westphalia to be a suretoken that a funeral will soon pass that way. In the German, as in the Aryan mythology, the dog is an embodiment of the wind, and also an attendant on the dead. It appears in both characters in Odin's wild hunt. Dogs see ghosts, and when lie!, the goddess of death, goes a bout, invisible to human eyes, she is seen by the dogs,- I '' 7 ' ll Y I ' 4o • Eireilean Tradition and Rik-Lore,